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Near the end of the 2011 federal election campaign, news broke that then-NDP leader Jack Layton had been found naked by police in a massage parlour years earlier when he was a city councillor. Layton, shaken by the news report, said he had been there only because he had sore muscles and, well, needed a massage. He said he did not know other activit

If the Progressive Conservatives were looking for a silk purse out of the sow’s ear delivered with the sexual impropriety charges levelled at Patrick Brown and his abrupt resignation as leader, wisdom would dictate proceeding with a caution rarely exhibited.

It’s really not that hard to issue a handful of social media posts. Every single day, millions of Canadians manage to pull it off. They post on Face­book, they post on Twitter, they post on Instagram and other platforms.

A little more than a year ago, the second in command of the Canadian Forces, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, was removed from his job by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance. The reasons were kept secret, even as the RCMP was removing laptops, phones and records — including many of his wife’s personal files — from Norman’s home.

Ontario’s minimum wage has in the past been routinely increased with a minimum of fuss. It was only when Premier Kathleen Wynne decided to make it a political issue that the wage has become a problem for the business community.